Argh! They're air intake vents! Man, don't you guys read up on this stuff?

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yes, but what was interesting was they had the reflective surface on them, and the air goes around the edges, not straight in. Interesting touch. The back of the machine is all air vent - pretty crazy.

I think that liking the new enclosure is going to be a personal thing. I'm not all that excited about it. It seems like a kluge in many ways. The engineering of the vents to help cool the system seems a bit drastic - it was necessary because they have the processors going so fast its generating enough heat to warm a small room in winter.

I'm sure Apple's not to happy about that either. With a new chip (the Power4 hopefully) thats smaller, draws less power and runs cooler, they're not going to need this enclosure - so, what is on the horizen? Will we see another new design next year?

I checked it out when I was there. It wasn't all that bad - but it wasn't running anything that would make it heat up. You'll need to take a Quicktime Movie and export it at 2x size, add some filters, etc. and let it run for 15 and see what happens. Not something you'd likely be able to do in the store - especially with all the people coming and going.

The mirrored panel is so geeks can burn CDs and pop zits at the same time.

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You gotta wonder if women can put on makeup looking at the panel and use the mouse with their knees as if they're going to work in the car. I rarely see them crash so I assume the car isn't controlled by Windows.

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